10 things you need to know in markets today

Ukrainian
artist Dariya Marchenko works on a portrait of Russian President
Vladimir Putin namedREUTERS/Gleb
Garanich

UK GDP is coming. The figure for the UK's Q2 economic
performance is coming at 9:30 a.m. London time (4:30 a.m. New
York time). Analysts are expecting a 0.7% boost on the quarter,
considerably stronger than the 0.4% rise recorded in Q1.

But Chinese stocks still fell by 5% just after the
open. The Shanghai Composite tumbled after an 8%
crash on Monday, but picked up a little late. As of 6:50 a.m.
London time (1:50 a.m. New York) the index is down 1.87%. Hong
Kong's Hang Seng is up 1.03% and Japan's Nikkei is up 0.08%.